All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.
EpictetusTo be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
EpictetusIt is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus